UFO Watchers: Rover Spotted a Possible Coffin on Mars

An intriguing mystery surrounds the discovery of images from the Mars rover that appear to show a coffin on the surface, suggesting that there has been life on the red planet.

Although the pictures were taken by the rover, Curiosity, on Sol 64 in October 2012, they have only just been uncovered by UFO watchers over the Christmas holidays, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Will Farrar of the website Do You Know What's Up in the Sky? said that the object appeared similar to a stone coffin in a recent article on the site as well as in a video on his YouTube channel.

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"It sure does look like a little coffin to me," Farrar wrote. "The reality of it all is that it does look like a box-type feature carved out on another planet."

Farrar says that something was "crawling around" that was intelligent enough to build what appears to be a stone coffin on the landscape, in a similar fashion to that of humans digging graves on Earth over millions of years.

Scott Waring, author of UFO Sightings Daily, said he had noticed the "coffin" earlier this month but had not pointed it out on his website because he was too busy over the holidays.

Estimating that the object measures one meter, or about 3.3 feet, across, and 18 inches tall and wide, Waring urged NASA to unravel the secrets of the stonework.

"What would it take to get NASA to turn the rover around and examine the contents of this box?" Waring wrote. “Lots of alien species are short, including a species of greys."

UFO watchers like Waring have given the name "greys" to alien species due to what they say is their color.